* For the first week or two, use typing lessons for Dvorak for twenty minutes per day. It's going to take a while to retrain your muscle movements.
* DO NOT look at the keyboard. You'll learn faster by training your muscle movements.
* After the first couple weeks, the hardest bit is going to come in: switching fulltime to Dvorak. Pick a period of time where you don't have to do a whole lot of typing. It's going to be slow, cumbersome, and really frustrating at times. STICK WITH DVORAK no matter how frustrating it is.
* After a couple months, which is where I'm at now, you'll start to realize how much the world revolves around QWERTY and will have to switch to it every once in a while. Start randomly switching between Dvorak and QWERTY. Train your muscle movements to learn how to switch between them on the fly. This is where I'm at right now.

After a couple months, which is where I'm at now, you'll start to realize how much the world revolves around QWERTY and will have to switch to it every once in a while. Start randomly switching between Dvorak and QWERTY. Train your muscle movements to learn how to switch between them on the fly. This is where I'm at right now.

After a couple months, which is where I'm at now, you'll start to realize how much the world revolves around QWERTY and will have to switch to it every once in a while. Start randomly switching between Dvorak and QWERTY. Train your muscle movements to learn how to switch between them on the fly. This is where I'm at right now.

Really? What do you need QWERTY for?

A ton of games don't account for keyboard layouts, some curses programs that require user interaction will require you to switch layouts unless you're willing to relearn how to scroll or rebind your keyboard shortcuts (which is what I did with vim). CTRL-X/C/V in some GUI's might account for the new layout and some might not.

When I did a hard-switch to neo, I found programming was a good excercise.
It doesn't slow you down all that much because it isn't that much typing anyways plus you get to type the languages keywords over and over again which helps memorizing the keys.
…stay away from chats.

What's the point of putting a Dvorak keyboard layout on Android. You're not typing normally on Android to begin with (i.e., using both hands, all fingers, etc.), are you? Seems to me you're just making life difficult for yourself unnecessarily, unless you're already accustomed to Dvorak on your other keyboards.

What's the point of putting a Dvorak keyboard layout on Android. You're not typing normally on Android to begin with (i.e., using both hands, all fingers, etc.), are you? Seems to me you're just making life difficult for yourself unnecessarily, unless you're already accustomed to Dvorak on your other keyboards.

Whats the point? I'd say its the easiest way to learn the button positions. Of course it won't teach you how to touch type dvorak, but it's an easier start than using a Dvorak layout underneath a QWERTY-labeled keyboard and playing the where-the-fuck-is-the-key game.

After a couple months, which is where I'm at now, you'll start to realize how much the world revolves around QWERTY and will have to switch to it every once in a while. Start randomly switching between Dvorak and QWERTY. Train your muscle movements to learn how to switch between them on the fly. This is where I'm at right now.

After a couple months, which is where I'm at now, you'll start to realize how much the world revolves around QWERTY and will have to switch to it every once in a while. Start randomly switching between Dvorak and QWERTY. Train your muscle movements to learn how to switch between them on the fly. This is where I'm at right now.

After a couple months, which is where I'm at now, you'll start to realize how much the world revolves around QWERTY and will have to switch to it every once in a while. Start randomly switching between Dvorak and QWERTY. Train your muscle movements to learn how to switch between them on the fly. This is where I'm at right now.

well, unlike DVORAK, COLEMAK IS indeed a good layout made to make typing easier.

DVORAK has been shown to be utter shite. I am really worried that people still fall for this crap layout._________________Study finds stunning lack of racial, gender, and economic diversity among middle-class white males

really? so when QWERTY was introduced - why was it chosen instead of all the other layouts? And there were a lot in the late 19th century with typing contests and everything. And for some magical reason QWERTY prevailed. Without 'market dominance' - just because it was better.

DVORAK on the other hand has nothing to show. Except two studies manufactured by Dvorak and one which had to be tuned in DVORAK's favour after it failed to produce the 'correct' outcome._________________Study finds stunning lack of racial, gender, and economic diversity among middle-class white males

really? so when QWERTY was introduced - why was it chosen instead of all the other layouts? And there were a lot in the late 19th century with typing contests and everything. And for some magical reason QWERTY prevailed. Without 'market dominance' - just because it was better.

DVORAK on the other hand has nothing to show. Except two studies manufactured by Dvorak and one which had to be tuned in DVORAK's favour after it failed to produce the 'correct' outcome.

It wasn't chosen, it was the layout of THE typewriter. The layout itself evolved from an alphabetical ordering (partially still present on the home row: d fgh jkl) with rearrangements to avoid the keys from jamming.

I don't know why or how dvorak was developed. But the colemak site has a calculator for comparison.
You want to have low values for distance, same hand/finger and distribution that is home-row > top-row > bottom-row.

wrong. It was just one layout among MANY OTHERS. There was no 'the' typewriter. There was healthy competition with lots of typing contests. And QWERTY came out as the winner._________________Study finds stunning lack of racial, gender, and economic diversity among middle-class white males